ABSTRACT The Society for Museum Archaeology (SMA) is a Subject Specialist Network for British Archaeology in the UK. Founded in 1975, it was originally formed because of a perceived need for a political voice at a time of evolutionary change in the role for museums relative to the archaeological profession. Since then the role of museum archaeologists has been transformed by policies and other agendas not of their own making. As a consequence, the profession faces multiple challenges requiring new strategies to be formulated and there have been fundamental changes in the way that museums participate in a more professionalised yet compartmentalised fieldwork process. In particular museums have had to deal with the results of changing attitudes towards the preservation and recording of archaeological sites and the introduction of new planning policy. As a result, new standards have evolved, professional groupings formed and resources stretched to breaking point. SMA has been working collaboratively towards finding solutions to the shared challenges the profession faces as a result of policy. Observations on the response to some of these challenges are illustrated here using SMA’s newsletters and other publications and commentary provided on recent approaches that have been taken to resolving them.

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总是在接收端？对考古，博物馆和政策的思考

摘要博物馆考古学会（SMA）是英国英国考古学的主题专家网络。它成立于1975年，最初成立是因为在博物馆相对于考古专业的角色发生演变时，人们意识到需要政治声音。从那时起，博物馆考古学家的角色已经被政策和其他非他们自己制定的议程所改变。结果，该行业面临着许多挑战，需要制定新的策略，并且博物馆参与更专业，更分隔的野外工作过程的方式发生了根本性的变化。尤其是博物馆必须应对人们对保存和记录考古遗址的态度转变以及采用新的规划政策的结果。结果，新的标准不断发展，专业团体形成，资源不断扩展。SMA一直在努力寻找解决方案，以解决该行业由于政策而面临的共同挑战。此处使用SMA的新闻通讯和其他出版物以及有关解决这些问题的最新方法提供的评论来说明对这些挑战的响应的观察结果。